The transformational capacity of ubiquitous and contextual computing

“Fish don’t know the existence of water until beached”

What is it – or, what could it be?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_gLVlYOl0w&feature=related

Ubicomp involves a variety of very different interactions and with that

problems for users

Context aware computing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_121798&src_vid=b64_16K2e08&v=HW9gU_4AUCA&feature=iv

Utilize information about other people’s behavior for our own

navigational decisions

networked environments + context aware computing

“Seizing-the-moment”, web + social + context mashing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POw402XwDeE&feature=related

Golding argues that the “tools invented to seize the moment have

begun to define the moment”

The changing possibilities for researching humanities and social

sciences

“We can follow the imagination, opinions, ideas and feelings of hundreds of millions of people. We can see images and videos they

create and comment on, eavesdrop on conversations they are engaged in, read their blog posts and tweets, navigate their maps,

link to their track lists and follow their trajectories in physical space.

Manovich, March 2011

What does he mean by this?

“It is as if the inner workings of [our] private world’s have been pried open

because their inputs and outputs have become thoroughly traceable.”

Bruno Latour, 2007

1. Access

2. Authenticity

3. Human/machine differences

4. Data analysis